Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you fail to initiate the appropriate steps within the first hour or two, patients very rapidly become comatose and the mortality increases significantly.

If you are not a professional about security, you are a failure,

If there is a catastrophic failure, the pilots won't even know, it will be too fast,

Justin Leonard

I tend to learn more in failure than I do in success,

Cameron Crowe

I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church. How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.

Cameron Crowe

I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

I'm not happy about it because I think it represents a failure of government to plan,

I'm disappointed because we put ourselves under a lot of pressure giving away too many penalties in the first half and failing to take our opportunities in the second.

Spike Jonze

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

Orlando Bloom

I love this guy, ... I love the journey he goes on. It's a story we can all relate to, in terms of success and failure and the momentary happiness in life. What really makes people tick? What really makes them understand life?

C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The issue of releasing Palestinian prisoners is very unpopular in Israel, and if he goes too far, he'll suffer more than by his failure to reach an agreement.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Patrick White

The failure of The Aunt's Story and the need to learn a language afresh made me wonder whether I should ever write another word.

The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.

Rob Lowe

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

Khalil Gibran

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

Napoleon Hill

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Harvey Mackay

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

The ignorant become stupid - when they no longer perceive or willfully ignore their own lack of knowledge - and then fail to strive and learn anything more.

Henry David Thoreau

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

James Russell Lowell

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

James Russell Lowell

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

James Russell Lowell

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

Luc de Clapiers

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

You could have four or five kids out of 95 that fail to perform academically. Statistically, that's a very small number.

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

These kind of games really make us better. Success sometimes comes from failure.